AMBAGE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A style that involves indirect ways of expressing things

Synonyms:

ambage; circumlocution; periphrasis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("ambage" is a kind of...):

verboseness; verbosity (an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words)

Derivation:

ambagious (roundabout and unnecessarily wordy)

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